Comment 16 for bug 1724439

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Rachel, no need to switch to Mac to avoid this problem. What I ended up
doing was this:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop

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Daniel Wilches

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:21 AM, Rachel Greenham <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Well, my bug #1756036 just got (automatically-i-think) marked as a
> duplicate of this one, and I'm on 18.04 (gnome-shell 3.27.92-0ubuntu1)
> So that's one, Daniel. ;-) I'd been getting this on some mornings, but
> the bug report was getting rejected because of outdated packages until
> this morning. Interestingly it doesn't seem to happen again later in the
> day, so, as noted before, length-of-sleep may be a factor.
>
> I reported a lot on these bugs in 17.10, until I eventually gave up and
> just used my (half-the-speed) mac for a while. Freshly-installed 18.04
> and tried again, and I *am* having far less trouble. When it does go
> wrong, it "fails better", in that it seems to recover reasonably well
> and leave me with a working session, even if there are a couple of side-
> effects (eg: having both dash-to-dock and the dash in
> activities/applications) which clear on an orderly logout/login.
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> Title:
> gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in meta_window_get_monitor() from
> ffi_call_unix64() from ffi_call() from gjs_invoke_c_function() from
> function_call()
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